Compassion quotes

Quotes about empathy, understanding others, and leading with a compassionate heart. Browse more in the Motivational app.

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

— Dalai Lama

"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals."

— Pema Chödrön

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear."

— Leo Buscaglia

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

— Maya Angelou

"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings."

— Nelson Mandela

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